Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 10:40:24 +0400 From: "Rino Mardo" <rmardo@altayer.com> To: "Doug Barton" <DougB@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: Help on upgrading to stable Message-ID: <2C9DB6D1616E784BB788F1CBAD33A2F3F547@EXCHANGE1.atg.altayer.com>
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> > Either I'm doing a "make build" or "cvsup stable-supfile". =20 > I've already > > swapped the hd between the primary and secondary ide controllers and > > still get the message. The only thing left is to find a=20 > hard disk to > > try out but hard disks are expensive in this part of the=20 > world so I was > > wondering if my analysis is correct that the hard disk is at fault > > before I commit and buy a new harddisk. >=20 > I can sympathize with your situation. Unless you have=20 > an urgent need to > stay with -stable you might simply want to stick with doing binary > upgrades to the major releases. You might also try binary snapshots of > -stable that are available at > ftp://releng4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/ if you=20 > are looking > for specific functionality that's available only in a certain=20 > snapshot.=20 By binary snapshots you mean do package install (individually) as opposed to cvsup? I really don't have an urgent need to stay -stable but I prefer using cvsup to update my system that's why I keep banging at make world. Thank you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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